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Sorry if someone has posted this already--not sure I've read every
message in the thread. An article I often assign to demonstrate the
utility of even (gasp) quantitative network models in qualitative
research is:
Bearman, P. S., & Stovel, K. (2000). Becoming a Nazi: A model for
narrative networks. Poetics, 27, 69-90.
Best regards,
Steve
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Personally, I am always discomforted by the dichotomy implied in phrases
such as "qualitative approach" or "qualitative methods." You can't
study networks without counting nodes and ties. From the beginning
(nineteenth century) anthropologists and ethnographers counted people
and their relationships.
Here are a couple of "early" discussions of network studies in
anthropology.
Whitten, Norman E, and Alvin W. Wolfe 1974. "Network Analysis," In
Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, edited by John J.
Honigmann. Chicago: Rand-McNally. Pp. 717-746.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Whitten-Wolfe1974.pdf
Wolfe, Alvin W. 1978 "The Rise of Network Thinking in Anthropology,"
Social Networks, 1(1978):53-64.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~wolfe/Wolfe1978.pdf
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Dear all,
Does anyone know any research that has used a qualitative approach
to elicite social networks of a population? If so, could you give me
the citations? Or is it possible or appropriate at all to study
social networks using qualitative methods and a small sample (e.g.
30-50)? Thanks a lot!
Yang
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